How Do Rituals Affect Cooperation? An Experimental Field Study Comparing Nine Ritual Types
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F13%3A00091808" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/13:00091808 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How Do Rituals Affect Cooperation? An Experimental Field Study Comparing Nine Ritual Types
Original language description
Collective rituals have long puzzled anthropologists, yet little is known about how rituals affect participants. Our study investigated the effects of nine naturally occurring rituals on prosociality. We operationalized prosociality as (1) attitudes about fellow ritual participants and (2) decisions in a public goods game. The nine rituals varied in levels of synchrony and levels of sacred attribution. We found that rituals with synchronous body movements were more likely to enhance prosocial attitudes. We also found that rituals judged to be sacred were associated with the largest contributions in the public goods game. Path analysis favored a model in which sacred values mediate the effects of synchronous movements on prosocial behaviors. Our analysis offers the first quantitative evidence for the long-standing anthropological conjecture that rituals orchestrate body motions and sacred values to support prosociality.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Human Nature
ISSN
1045-6767
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
115-125
UT code for WoS article
000319352000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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